This review, and probably the show, is full of ignorance.

"overweight and desperate to get healthy" Healthy is NOT a synonym for "thin" so please don't use them interchangeably.

"perfect time for an intervention" Interventions are for drug addicts. Food is not a drug, food is nourishment. You need it to live. You can't go cold turkey on food.

"little kid plus-size section (sad!)" Not sad at all. There have always been fat kids. Boys' pants have had a "husky" variety for like, ever. And finally fat little girls will be able to shop in the kids' section instead of misses? Yay! Not sad.

"Healthy is NOT a synonym for 'thin' so please don't use them interchangeably."

Yes, but "obese" is an antonym for "healthy," so what's your point?

"Interventions are for drug addicts. Food is not a drug, food is nourishment. You need it to live. You can't go cold turkey on food."

Nobody said she had to go cold turkey (although she can go cold turkey on the "processed junk"). There is such a thing as food addiction, and an intervention is appropriate.

I realize there is a large contingent of America who wants us to believe that there's really nothing wrong with being obese, but let's get real here. I'm not saying we need to judge or be mean to obese people, but obesity is a disease. What other disease do you make those kinds of excuses for? Oh, don't treat her cancer. Cancer's not necessarily unhealthy, and anyway it's not her fault. WTF?

Anyway, I watched this show once. The trainer did a good job of teaching the girl good habits, and that's a great thing to learn before college where there are so many tempting bad habits. Now she has a good base and knows how to take care of herself.

As for the "fat kids," Crafty, maybe they should go out and play and exercise rather than having clothes manufacturers make ever larger clothes to accommodate their soon to be diabetic bodies?

"A 'why not just exercise and not be a fatty' approach, particularly when food is used to comfort, only becomes mean and cruel and makes the problem worse."

Yes, you're right and of course I didn't mean that. I did say that obesity was not an excuse for the rest of us to be mean to obese people (and I'm never in favor if being mean to kids...unless they're assholes). Crafty's point is that there have always been fat kids so it's okay for kids to be obese no matter what the reason. My point is that it's not okay to just accept that kids will be fat when we can instill healthy habits in them early and not just accommodate their obesity (healthier kids does mean healthier adults, after all). Of course treating them well psychologically (including giving them fashionable clothing) is as important as encouraging them to exercise and letting them play and be kids instead of just "loving" them by giving them whatever they want foodwise.

Anyway, I think Angel's point in saying it was sad that she remembers shopping in the plus size section as a child is that it's sad to think about what a beating her self-esteem took being an obese child and what psychological issues she must have been dealing with to eat that much in the first place. Not that it's just sad in general that big clothes for kids exist.